A very interesting read. I have read A Brief history of Time on a flight from Perth to Sydney once and I found it very interesting, although my mind drifted alot as it did get a bit hard for me to understand specially when he went into some detail of his theories. I wonder how the Universe in a Nutshell compares to A Brief History of Time. None-the-less, I think Hawkins is an amazing person. (does anyone know if he's knighted?) To be afflicted like him, survive this long and be such an influential person is an inspiration. I wonder what he thinks of euthanasia.
I couldn't copy the text because it is done in Flash, but I was disappointed to see this narrow view of our planet postulated in "Old World" = Europe, and "New World"= The Americas. What has happened to Africa and Australia? Would they be old or new or really really old (as in Australia, which is probably the oldest continent). Also, they want to establish an Overland Race around the world from New York to London, wouldn't it be more challenging to go New York to, say Johannesburg?
For one, Apple does not use the GPL, it uses BSD licensed products. besides, who says that making money and having fun is mutually exclusive?
Guess what. Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, and a host of others WANT to make money. They may have started as a fun project, and they may make innovations along the way: are they bad?
1) I can read it while standing in a train. 2) I scribble over it and keep these notes for later reference. and most importantly, 3) I can take it with me to the loo where I can read it at leisure.
Just so people don't get confused about what this will achieve: It will only help vintage aircraft oweners. Most of the old vintage aircraft have no manuals (IPCs etc); and the repairs would generally be applied through FAA approved engineers. Most, if not all newer aircraft will not be affected by this. I do not think that the FAA will let any one build an aircraft using these blueprints because the certification nw is totally different than earlier last century. They may however be built as experimental aircraft. That is where I think te EAA comes in.
Disclaimer: I am an Aussie and I know what I am talking about.
So the government used its own intelligence-gathering arm to get as much information on the situation as possible, before making decisions. And this is bad, uh, how? Its well founded that it was spying and intelligence that helped prevent the cold war turning into WWIII. The Cuban missile crisis proved how invaluable intelligence is in a crisis.
To compare the TAMPA issue with Cuban missile crises, or any other crises is totally incomprehensible. Where is the national security risk when it comes to some refugees coming into the country? They weren't the first and they certainly weren't the last. The issue with the DSD supplying information in this case to the government (disregarding the disgusting term used by Crean of UnAustralian) is that it was a misuse of government policy. Notice that none would have compained if ASIO was involved, because it is within their mandate to monitor internal security risks. The DSD is solely mandated to monitor International communications where there is a threat to Australian scurity.
Has the government done the right thing? No. I believe the whole TAMPA thing is a sham. Remember the allegations they raised that refugees were throwing their kids into the water? Allegations that were denied by the Navy! Besides, if the TAMPA was dangerous, why is it allowed to come back to Australian ports?
John Warnock said there were two paths, one is to use Display Postscript, and the other is to use Interchange Postscript. It sounds like they went with IPS, but how divergent from Postscrip is PDF (or Acrobat Exchange format)? Also, does anyone know if anyone other than Apple uses Display Postscript?
Such a move will further entrench software development into the hands of a few large companies.
I think this issue of liability may be a little overstated. I can't comment about what happens in the States, but my experience (by observation only) with product liability litigation tells me that in almost all cases, the *big guys*, who are usually the richest get hit. I worked in an aeronautical engineering company, and we did not have liability insurance. The owner used to say, that they can't sue us because there is nothing for them to gain. Smalltime programmers should have nothing to fear because the litigators can gain nothing by suing them. Besides, big projects are supported by big companies:IBM, RedHat, etc. They are probably worried.
IANAL, so my comments have been salt preserved.
I know quite a few people will complain that this SUV will only be used on city roads and never see off-road service; while this may be true, this vehicle will have very good usage in rugged and remote places like in outback Australia. There are similar (not hight tech though) vehicles made in Australia by OKA Motor Company (see here, not link to OKA sorry) which is exclusivly used where there are absolutely no roads.
I can easily see a market for this (undoubtedly, very expensive, and so, out of reach for the Joneses) SUV within the mining and "exploration" industry in places like Australia, Russia, Canada, Africa and South America. That, I think is the real market for this vehicle.
My question is about "the first message". I mean, they do not look "simple". Braille and other symbols are simpler. Actually Arabic numerals and operands are visually simpler. Anyone know why they chose the symbols that they chose?
Three years ago, I lined up to watch Episode I. I left the theatre thinking thinking to myself, Ah well. Glad it is over, I won't bother watching it again. I had to think about it, but the reason I disliked the movie, was the inclusion of some characters from the "future" when there was absolutely no need to like C3P0. Also, including scenes that, to me, did not add anything to the plot, like the race... Also, it was not funny like the "sequels".
That said, I want to watch the ATOC always hoping that things have improved.
Just my 0.02?
It seems that this guy stole some PERL scripts and password files using a hole in IIS using FrontPage from some news website. Here is a link I found while going through the not very helpful links in this thread.
I hope people don't confuse the security flaws in IIS with code theft. Code theft is "stealing" regardless of how you got to it.
Another documentation project! So what? It is like all those new programming languages that crop up because the old one is "not good enough anymore", and the new one is supposed to replace it! This usually meant that people have an extra language to learn. Look at C++ and C, C# and JAVA, and I'm sure there are more. Creating something new does not make the old one (which works just fine, thank you) obsolete. I agree with a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24969&ci d=2712435">previous comment that all this bickering is counter productive. The best way to fix a problem is to "work" on it not start something new.
I agree with porterhouse. I am quite a tradionalist. I think engineering should be reserved to those disciplines that are related to designing things. As much as there similarities between the two disciplines, I think engineering should be a reserved word. I am an aeronautical engineer, yet I am not "certified" by CASA to approve designs/modifications. I have to prove myself to them through my employers before they would grant me that delegation. I believe it is similar for other engineering disciplines. This is the biggest distinction in "practice" from software designers.
I am surprised that no one has refered to Apple's Finder (a shell of some kind). The finder kept it's own database of files/applications/associations. This made installing applications very easy. Just place them anywhere you want, and voila, it works. Some needed some extensionswhich went into the extensions folder, but the executable could be placed anywhere. Apple's OSX has a system called packages (bundles under NextStep), where all the files for a certain application are stored in the one folder. Renaming the folder foo.app makes it an "executable" in the gui. You can still browse the contents though if you need to. I think this makes managing appllication a lot easier. Besides, you can place these packages anywhere you want, you just have to create a shortcut (symlink) to the folder an place it somewhere accessible. ArsTechnica has an article about this.
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I've read a lot about the varous IDEs out there, and it seems to me that most of them have skimmed over the best and most widely used one: VI.
VI is a very mature piece of software. has been around for as long as... well, let's just say it has been around longer than notepad, and dare I say longer even than "EMACS".
I remember when I used to use Matlab, there was a funtion called "Why". It used to spit out these silly answers. It somehow made using Matlab slightly less tedious.
This is just like all the hidden easter eggs in programs written by most programmers. (The built in screen saver in some versions of Word does not count.)
I saw that a while back on BBC documentary about Tunguska. They showed photos from that Russian scientist's exteriments, and they also showed aerial photos of the actual are. The similarity was indeed amazing. I can imagine things would be different now: there would be a computer model of the whole sequence, and if enough time and detail was put into it, I'm sure it'll give similar results.
Maybe one of those nuclear simulation super comuters?
Also, for those who know,how does the meteor explode in mid air? I can understand an impact explosion, but how does a "light" meteor explode without impact?
A: First of all, put that in context that the largest amount of semi-conductor material to flow into the home will undoubtedly be through toys. It's not TV sets; it's not refrigerators; it's not PCs; it's not handsets - it's going to be toys. The reason I use that Barbie doll example is that the Barbie doll has to be connected in order to get stories, in order to get your content.
Somehow, I think the online contents for a Barbie doll will be quite minimal.
On a serious note, I think he's got a point there. Imagine one of these toys always getting an updated interface (audio) to interact with the children. Interesting.
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It won't work on the Mac because you don't have C:/ or winmine.exe
Try modifying the scripts to point to something MacOSXy, maybe it'll owrk then.
A very interesting read. I have read A Brief history of Time on a flight from Perth to Sydney once and I found it very interesting, although my mind drifted alot as it did get a bit hard for me to understand specially when he went into some detail of his theories. I wonder how the Universe in a Nutshell compares to A Brief History of Time.
None-the-less, I think Hawkins is an amazing person. (does anyone know if he's knighted?) To be afflicted like him, survive this long and be such an influential person is an inspiration. I wonder what he thinks of euthanasia.
I couldn't copy the text because it is done in Flash, but I was disappointed to see this narrow view of our planet postulated in "Old World" = Europe, and "New World"= The Americas. What has happened to Africa and Australia? Would they be old or new or really really old (as in Australia, which is probably the oldest continent).
Also, they want to establish an Overland Race around the world from New York to London, wouldn't it be more challenging to go New York to, say Johannesburg?
For one, Apple does not use the GPL, it uses BSD licensed products.
besides, who says that making money and having fun is mutually exclusive?
Guess what. Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, and a host of others WANT to make money. They may have started as a fun project, and they may make innovations along the way: are they bad?
1) I can read it while standing in a train.
2) I scribble over it and keep these notes for later reference.
and most importantly,
3) I can take it with me to the loo where I can read it at leisure.
Just so people don't get confused about what this will achieve: It will only help vintage aircraft oweners. Most of the old vintage aircraft have no manuals (IPCs etc); and the repairs would generally be applied through FAA approved engineers. Most, if not all newer aircraft will not be affected by this. I do not think that the FAA will let any one build an aircraft using these blueprints because the certification nw is totally different than earlier last century. They may however be built as experimental aircraft. That is where I think te EAA comes in.
Disclaimer: I am an Aussie and I know what I am talking about.
So the government used its own intelligence-gathering arm to get as much information on the situation as possible, before making decisions. And this is bad, uh, how? Its well founded that it was spying and intelligence that helped prevent the cold war turning into WWIII. The Cuban missile crisis proved how invaluable intelligence is in a crisis.
To compare the TAMPA issue with Cuban missile crises, or any other crises is totally incomprehensible. Where is the national security risk when it comes to some refugees coming into the country? They weren't the first and they certainly weren't the last. The issue with the DSD supplying information in this case to the government (disregarding the disgusting term used by Crean of UnAustralian) is that it was a misuse of government policy.
Notice that none would have compained if ASIO was involved, because it is within their mandate to monitor internal security risks. The DSD is solely mandated to monitor International communications where there is a threat to Australian scurity.
Has the government done the right thing? No. I believe the whole TAMPA thing is a sham. Remember the allegations they raised that refugees were throwing their kids into the water? Allegations that were denied by the Navy! Besides, if the TAMPA was dangerous, why is it allowed to come back to Australian ports?
John Warnock said there were two paths, one is to use Display Postscript, and the other is to use Interchange Postscript.
It sounds like they went with IPS, but how divergent from Postscrip is PDF (or Acrobat Exchange format)? Also, does anyone know if anyone other than Apple uses Display Postscript?
Such a move will further entrench software development into the hands of a few large companies.
I think this issue of liability may be a little overstated. I can't comment about what happens in the States, but my experience (by observation only) with product liability litigation tells me that in almost all cases, the *big guys*, who are usually the richest get hit. I worked in an aeronautical engineering company, and we did not have liability insurance. The owner used to say, that they can't sue us because there is nothing for them to gain.
Smalltime programmers should have nothing to fear because the litigators can gain nothing by suing them. Besides, big projects are supported by big companies:IBM, RedHat, etc. They are probably worried. IANAL, so my comments have been salt preserved.
I know quite a few people will complain that this SUV will only be used on city roads and never see off-road service; while this may be true, this vehicle will have very good usage in rugged and remote places like in outback Australia. There are similar (not hight tech though) vehicles made in Australia by OKA Motor Company (see here, not link to OKA sorry) which is exclusivly used where there are absolutely no roads.
I can easily see a market for this (undoubtedly, very expensive, and so, out of reach for the Joneses) SUV within the mining and "exploration" industry in places like Australia, Russia, Canada, Africa and South America. That, I think is the real market for this vehicle.
I'd better start saving for one.
My question is about "the first message". I mean, they do not look "simple". Braille and other symbols are simpler. Actually Arabic numerals and operands are visually simpler. Anyone know why they chose the symbols that they chose?
Three years ago, I lined up to watch Episode I. I left the theatre thinking thinking to myself, Ah well. Glad it is over, I won't bother watching it again. I had to think about it, but the reason I disliked the movie, was the inclusion of some characters from the "future" when there was absolutely no need to like C3P0. Also, including scenes that, to me, did not add anything to the plot, like the race... Also, it was not funny like the "sequels".
That said, I want to watch the ATOC always hoping that things have improved.
Just my 0.02?
It seems that this guy stole some PERL scripts and password files using a hole in IIS using FrontPage from some news website. Here is a link I found while going through the not very helpful links in this thread.
I hope people don't confuse the security flaws in IIS with code theft. Code theft is "stealing" regardless of how you got to it.
Another documentation project! So what? It is like all those new programming languages that crop up because the old one is "not good enough anymore", and the new one is supposed to replace it! This usually meant that people have an extra language to learn. Look at C++ and C, C# and JAVA, and I'm sure there are more. Creating something new does not make the old one (which works just fine, thank you) obsolete. I agree with a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24969&ci d=2712435">previous comment that all this bickering is counter productive. The best way to fix a problem is to "work" on it not start something new.
I don't like pepper that much. It makes one sneeze. I prefer coke myself. Is that why I can't read the article?
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I agree with porterhouse. I am quite a tradionalist. I think engineering should be reserved to those disciplines that are related to designing things. As much as there similarities between the two disciplines, I think engineering should be a reserved word. I am an aeronautical engineer, yet I am not "certified" by CASA to approve designs/modifications. I have to prove myself to them through my employers before they would grant me that delegation. I believe it is similar for other engineering disciplines. This is the biggest distinction in "practice" from software designers.
I am surprised that no one has refered to Apple's Finder (a shell of some kind). The finder kept it's own database of files/applications/associations. This made installing applications very easy. Just place them anywhere you want, and voila, it works. Some needed some extensionswhich went into the extensions folder, but the executable could be placed anywhere.
Apple's OSX has a system called packages (bundles under NextStep), where all the files for a certain application are stored in the one folder. Renaming the folder foo.app makes it an "executable" in the gui. You can still browse the contents though if you need to.
I think this makes managing appllication a lot easier. Besides, you can place these packages anywhere you want, you just have to create a shortcut (symlink) to the folder an place it somewhere accessible.
ArsTechnica has an article about this.
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I've read a lot about the varous IDEs out there, and it seems to me that most of them have skimmed over the best and most widely used one: VI.
VI is a very mature piece of software. has been around for as long as... well, let's just say it has been around longer than notepad, and dare I say longer even than "EMACS".
Have you considered VI?
I remember when I used to use Matlab, there was a funtion called "Why". It used to spit out these silly answers. It somehow made using Matlab slightly less tedious.
This is just like all the hidden easter eggs in programs written by most programmers. (The built in screen saver in some versions of Word does not count.)
I saw that a while back on BBC documentary about Tunguska. They showed photos from that Russian scientist's exteriments, and they also showed aerial photos of the actual are. The similarity was indeed amazing. I can imagine things would be different now: there would be a computer model of the whole sequence, and if enough time and detail was put into it, I'm sure it'll give similar results.
Maybe one of those nuclear simulation super comuters?
Also, for those who know,how does the meteor explode in mid air? I can understand an impact explosion, but how does a "light" meteor explode without impact?
A: First of all, put that in context that the largest amount of semi-conductor material to flow into the home will undoubtedly be through toys. It's not TV sets; it's not refrigerators; it's not PCs; it's not handsets - it's going to be toys. The reason I use that Barbie doll example is that the Barbie doll has to be connected in order to get stories, in order to get your content.
Somehow, I think the online contents for a Barbie doll will be quite minimal.
On a serious note, I think he's got a point there. Imagine one of these toys always getting an updated interface (audio) to interact with the children. Interesting.
I mean, Darwin has it's own mascot, the Platypus. Why not use that instead of the BSD demon?